George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.